11 Russian strategic bombers moved to the Murmansk region

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Russia has already deployed 11 strategic missile-carrying bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons in the Murmansk region near the border with Norway. This was reported by the Norwegian edition of Faktisk, presenting as evidence a satellite image from the American company Planet Labs.

The publication clarified that the photo was taken on the morning of October 7 and its contents are beyond doubt. The picture shows 7 Tu-160s and 4 Tu-95s at the Olenya air base on the Kola Peninsula.



Experts suggest that the presence of long-range aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in this area is of a long-term nature. Allegedly, Moscow thus sends a signal to the West. Usually these aircraft are located at the Engels air base in the Saratov region, but now they have been transferred to the north.

For almost 2 months, the site of the Olenya airfield was empty, but on August 21, 4 Tu-160 units arrived there. September 25 there flew over 3 more units of Tu-95.

The interviewed experts admit that the deployment of the air group on the borders with Norway may be connected with the exercises of the Russian strategic nuclear forces "Grom", which are usually held in October. However, the last time the timing of the exercises was postponed from October 2021 to February 2022, which almost coincided with the start of Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

The deployment and exercise of strategic bombers is in itself a form of nuclear deterrence, so it can generally be seen as part of Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons.

says Norwegian military analyst Lars Peder Haga.

Professor of the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies Katarzyna Zisk agrees with this point of view. According to her, the deployment of the Tu-160 and Tu-95 is part of the containment system being built by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the help of which he wants to give credibility to his threats.
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  1. Vladimir Tuzakov
    Vladimir Tuzakov
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    13 October 2022 21: 28
    It seems that the reasons are more prosaic, to prevent the SBU saboteurs (at the tip of the United States) through UAVs or other actions (ATGMs) from destroying expensive strategic bombers. - out of harm's way ... Yes, and scare the neighbors of the Norwegians (Stoltenberg from there)) is also necessary.
  2. goncharov.62
    goncharov.62
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    13 October 2022 21: 55
    Who is this one? Tov. Stalin knew how to answer in this case ...
  3. Alex P
    Alex P
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    14 October 2022 08: 48
    Why near the border so that they can be destroyed by a sudden raid, like on June 22 chtol ???
    1. Alexey Davydov
      Alexey Davydov
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      14 October 2022 11: 13
      You're right. Betrayal is often disguised as stupidity. A strategic bomber with its flight range and refueling does not care where to fly from. This is a valuable chess piece. The farther from the border - the more air defense lines, the flight time of missiles and the time to destroy them. Specialists over the hill already understand the stupidity of this movement for us and chuckle. The point is in their own population - they need to SHOW that the government is doing what is necessary, if possible without doing anything.
      Strategic bombers in Murmansk are a vulnerable spot exposed to an air defense breakthrough in the event that NATO decides to start a war with us, and eggs put in the same basket with the nuclear submarine base
  4. Sergey Kuzmin
    Sergey Kuzmin
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    14 October 2022 17: 57
    If NATO members do not understand the normal calm language, then they have to act by force

    Professor of the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies Katarzyna Zisk agrees with this point of view. According to her, the deployment of the Tu-160 and Tu-95 is part of the containment system being built by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the help of which he wants to give credibility to his threats.

    They told them - do not climb to the borders of Russia, do not climb! But the Sshanatists stubbornly ran up and run into rudeness. And that such rudeness will follow if they don’t listen - the current problems of the Ukronazis are a good example.
    1. Alexey Davydov
      Alexey Davydov
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      14 October 2022 21: 02
      According to her, the deployment of the Tu-160 and Tu-95 is part of the containment system being built by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the help of which he wants to give credibility to his threats.

      The Norwegian does not chuckle, but in his words there is no assessment of the reasonableness of actions. There is a statement of Putin's desire "to give persuasiveness."
      Tu-160 and Tu-95 are not front-line bombers, whose place is at the front line. These are piece strategic carriers, the preparation of which for a flight takes a whole day. To put them near the border for the sake of an external effect, all the more - in a threatened period (and now it may be so) irresponsibility or betrayal disguised as it. That's my opinion
  5. DO
    DO
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    14 October 2022 22: 20
    This was reported by the Norwegian edition of Faktisk, presenting as evidence a satellite image from the American company Planet Labs.
    The publication clarified that the photo was taken on the morning of October 7 and its contents are beyond doubt.

    This whole story, blatantly contrary to military logic and common sense, raises precisely the deepest doubts about its authenticity, and is more like a provocative fake for Western inhabitants.